I was talking today on the phone to a friend in California and he was telling me about a new law so that you can’t hold a cellphone while driving. He asked if Texas had this law. Actually, we do not. In Texas it is legal to drive with a cellphone in one hand and a gun in the other!<\/p>\n
The LA Times has a story<\/a> on why you should not give your money to National Right to Life Committee or the Heritage Foundation (among others). If you give money to any organizations that use fundraising companies, you might want to give this story<\/a> and database<\/a> a look.<\/p>\n These rabbis are pretty smart. They finally figured out that smoking is dangerous and are forbidding it<\/a>.<\/p>\n Has my life been a waste? Yes, according to George Adam Smith. I did have a chance to go once and figured I’d go next time. Next time has never come.<\/p>\n Of the two hills beside Shechem, Gerizim is the more famous historically, but Ebal is higher, and has further prospect. The view from Ebal virtually covers the whole land, with the exception of the Negeb. All the four long zone, two of the four frontiers, specimens of all the physical features, and most of the famous scenes of the history, are in sight. No geography of Palestine can afford to dispense with the view from the top of Ebal (Smith, Historical Geography of the Holy Land, 120). <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was talking today on the phone to a friend in California and he was telling me about a new law so that you can’t hold a cellphone while driving. He asked if Texas had this law. Actually, we do not. In Texas it is legal to drive with a cellphone in one hand and\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n